I THE sun sets in night, and the stars shun the day; But glory remains when their lights fade away! Begin, ye tormentors! your threats are in vain, For the son of Alknomook shall never complain. II Remember the arrows he shot from his bow; Remember your chiefs by his hatchet laid low: Why so slow? -- do you wait till I shrink from the pain? No -- the son of Alknomook will never complain. III Remember the wood where in ambush we lay; And the scalps which we bore from your nation away: Now the flame rises fast, you exult in my pain; But the son of Alknomook can never complain. IV I go to the land where my father is gone; His ghost shall rejoice in the fame of his son: Death comes like a friend, he relieves me from pain; And thy son, Oh Alknomook! has scorn'd to complain. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TREKKING THE HILLS OF NORTHERN THAILAND by KAREN SWENSON THE PHOENIX AND THE TURTLE by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE WALNUT-TREE OF BOARSTELL: CANTO 3 by WILLIAM BASSE THE IMPROVISATORE: ALBERT AND EMILY by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES WANT by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON NEW LIFE by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR |